Capitalism's Outlook - with Bush at the front of the line
Hey Folks,
You know, we shouldn’t be surprised that those who run things are screwing the people back to the Stone Age – it’s a Capitalist country, isn’t it? What else would you expect?
Capitalism is based on “competition”; winners win and losers lose; and the goal is to be the ONE winner, with all the losers slaving for YOU. It’s reflected in sports.
When I was a kid, we were told: “It’s not whether you win or lose; it’s how you play the game.” It was okay to lose if you’d “done your darndest”; ties were even allowed in some sports (back then, those who had sisters must not have found it repulsive to kiss them).
Athletics were said to “build character,” “teach teamwork,” and foster discipline; we were all expected to grow up to be as wholesome as professional athletes (with the possible exception of professional “wrestlers”).
You don’t hear any of that malarkey nowadays. Winning is everything. Ties are outlawed; and even traditional bowl games aren’t enough for the competition crowd; gotta have a “National Championship” – computer/voting crap be-damned. We GOTTA have ONE winner – can’t have two or three losers strutting around impersonating the real “Winner”!
Today, players cut every corner, cheat, and build their bodies via illegal drugs. Coaches cut corners, cheat, even provide hookers. Winning and all the money that it brings is all that matters. So much for “character,” “teamwork,” and role models.
The goal of the capitalist (like that of pirates and dragons) is the accumulation of personal wealth, and as someone said, “You can’t make any money working for someone else.” The key is forcing OTHERS to slave for YOU – not only workers, but other capitalist who “can’t compete” and drop back into the labor pool. The more people you control, the more wealth you can suck out of them for your own hoard.
Before WW I the European nations “competed” with one another in exploiting the other nations of the world. They made out well – until there were no easy plums left to pick and then started “competing” with one another for foreign riches. As with the sports analogy, they wanted a playoff, one big winner, or at least fewer winners and more loot for their own nation. The playoff was World Wars I and II, the second being a continuation of the first.
Many upstanding, red-blooded American capitalists saw Adolph Hitler as an exemplary leader. Some plotted a coup against Roosevelt. Nothing that stood in the way of their growing wealth was sacred. It isn’t even enough to make a good profit. They will send the Work to China, bust unions, cut benefits, reduce wages, eliminate pensions, whatever it takes to make a higher profit. The degradation of humanity is an unimportant consideration.
We shouldn’t be surprised. When the slogan of capitalism and its sacred Market is: “Caveat emptor,” “Buyer Beware,” what would you expect? Mother Theresa?
And Bush, among his many other sins, is working overtime to squeeze more wealth for himself and his pals out of not just Arabs but Americans too. They screwed the poor in the Senate today. Soon they’ll come back and work on more tax cuts for the rich.
We need to drive out the Bush regime! We CAN do it. January 31 is W’s State of the Union address; The World Can’t Wait is organizing a protest in Washington and perhaps locally the Saturday following the address.
( see: http://www.worldcantwait.net/ )
Let’s do it
- Uke Man
You know, we shouldn’t be surprised that those who run things are screwing the people back to the Stone Age – it’s a Capitalist country, isn’t it? What else would you expect?
Capitalism is based on “competition”; winners win and losers lose; and the goal is to be the ONE winner, with all the losers slaving for YOU. It’s reflected in sports.
When I was a kid, we were told: “It’s not whether you win or lose; it’s how you play the game.” It was okay to lose if you’d “done your darndest”; ties were even allowed in some sports (back then, those who had sisters must not have found it repulsive to kiss them).
Athletics were said to “build character,” “teach teamwork,” and foster discipline; we were all expected to grow up to be as wholesome as professional athletes (with the possible exception of professional “wrestlers”).
You don’t hear any of that malarkey nowadays. Winning is everything. Ties are outlawed; and even traditional bowl games aren’t enough for the competition crowd; gotta have a “National Championship” – computer/voting crap be-damned. We GOTTA have ONE winner – can’t have two or three losers strutting around impersonating the real “Winner”!
Today, players cut every corner, cheat, and build their bodies via illegal drugs. Coaches cut corners, cheat, even provide hookers. Winning and all the money that it brings is all that matters. So much for “character,” “teamwork,” and role models.
The goal of the capitalist (like that of pirates and dragons) is the accumulation of personal wealth, and as someone said, “You can’t make any money working for someone else.” The key is forcing OTHERS to slave for YOU – not only workers, but other capitalist who “can’t compete” and drop back into the labor pool. The more people you control, the more wealth you can suck out of them for your own hoard.
Before WW I the European nations “competed” with one another in exploiting the other nations of the world. They made out well – until there were no easy plums left to pick and then started “competing” with one another for foreign riches. As with the sports analogy, they wanted a playoff, one big winner, or at least fewer winners and more loot for their own nation. The playoff was World Wars I and II, the second being a continuation of the first.
Many upstanding, red-blooded American capitalists saw Adolph Hitler as an exemplary leader. Some plotted a coup against Roosevelt. Nothing that stood in the way of their growing wealth was sacred. It isn’t even enough to make a good profit. They will send the Work to China, bust unions, cut benefits, reduce wages, eliminate pensions, whatever it takes to make a higher profit. The degradation of humanity is an unimportant consideration.
We shouldn’t be surprised. When the slogan of capitalism and its sacred Market is: “Caveat emptor,” “Buyer Beware,” what would you expect? Mother Theresa?
And Bush, among his many other sins, is working overtime to squeeze more wealth for himself and his pals out of not just Arabs but Americans too. They screwed the poor in the Senate today. Soon they’ll come back and work on more tax cuts for the rich.
We need to drive out the Bush regime! We CAN do it. January 31 is W’s State of the Union address; The World Can’t Wait is organizing a protest in Washington and perhaps locally the Saturday following the address.
( see: http://www.worldcantwait.net/ )
Let’s do it
- Uke Man
1 Comments:
Hi Tom,
So true!!! Sondra
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